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Visionary executives are indispensable to a company's future. They are skilled in dreaming up things that never were. They realize how important studying the past is to investing in the future. Myopic executives can't see the past or the future and, therefore, merely repeat the past.
Vision is a priceless talent that distinguishes leaders from managers. One cannot pretend to be a visionary. Either you are or you aren't.
Robert F. Kennedy declared himself a visionary when he uttered these memorable words: "Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not."
Though Kennedy spoke those words, his speechwriter actually borrowed them from George Bernard Shaw. Ordinarily, I would be bothered if Kennedy knew he was thinking aloud with George Bernard Shaw's ideas. But the message is so appropriate for our times, so profound for our futures, and so true for corporate executives that it deserves to be heard over and...